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Al Smith
I finally got Cool 'n Quiet working on my ASUS K8V-X with AMD
Athlon-64 3200+, and wanted to mention it, since I posted a while
ago that I'd tried it, and it didn't do anything. Well, it does
work -- partly. It drops the regular operating temperature of my
CPU way down. When I surf the Net or do other light tasks, I'm
only running 32 C now. That's a drop of around 18 C. It's actually
cooler than my motherboard. To my surprise, it even dropped the
maximum temperature down a few degrees. Before I activated Cool 'n
Quiet, I was running at 60 C playing games, and even going as high
as 62 C with some games. Afterward, my maximum temperature playing
games was 58 C.
What it doesn't do for me is change the speed of my fans. Neither
my case fan nor my CPU fan slows down at all. Power supply fan
doesn't show in any case and never did. All the temperature drop
comes from the voltage reduction in the CPU core. I think the
reason the CPU fan doesn't slow is because I put in a Thermaltake
aftermarket fan and it's speed is not regulated in the same way as
the stock fan. As for the case fan, maybe it's already running at
minimum, or maybe the motherboard temp is keeping its RPMs up.
Still, overall, Cool 'n Quiet was worth activating, so I take back
my negative comments.
Athlon-64 3200+, and wanted to mention it, since I posted a while
ago that I'd tried it, and it didn't do anything. Well, it does
work -- partly. It drops the regular operating temperature of my
CPU way down. When I surf the Net or do other light tasks, I'm
only running 32 C now. That's a drop of around 18 C. It's actually
cooler than my motherboard. To my surprise, it even dropped the
maximum temperature down a few degrees. Before I activated Cool 'n
Quiet, I was running at 60 C playing games, and even going as high
as 62 C with some games. Afterward, my maximum temperature playing
games was 58 C.
What it doesn't do for me is change the speed of my fans. Neither
my case fan nor my CPU fan slows down at all. Power supply fan
doesn't show in any case and never did. All the temperature drop
comes from the voltage reduction in the CPU core. I think the
reason the CPU fan doesn't slow is because I put in a Thermaltake
aftermarket fan and it's speed is not regulated in the same way as
the stock fan. As for the case fan, maybe it's already running at
minimum, or maybe the motherboard temp is keeping its RPMs up.
Still, overall, Cool 'n Quiet was worth activating, so I take back
my negative comments.